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This overview covers the essential stats on Northwestern University, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more. Want to know more about a specific stat? Just click on its tile, and you’ll go to a page that goes more in-depth on that subject. You can also use the links below to go directly to any section on this page.

How Well Is Northwestern University Ranked?

2023 Rankings

In its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.

Northwestern University was awarded 3,997 badges in the 2023 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is keyboard instruments.

Overall Quality

College Factual ranked Northwestern as #5 out of 2,241 colleges and universities in the country on its 2023 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 1% of all schools in the nation! This is an improvement over the previous year, when Northwestern held the #14 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

Northwestern also holds the #1 spot on the Best Colleges in Illinois ranking.

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How Much Money Do Northwestern Graduates Make?

The pay for some majors is higher than others, but on average, students who graduate with a bachelor's degree from Northwestern make about $80,033 a year during their first few years of employment after graduation. This is good news for future Northwestern graduates since it is 88% more than the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year.